Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure
Cohere · San Francisco · New York · Toronto · Montreal
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Frontier labremotestaff$190k–$325k
At a glance
Highlights
- Build next-gen AI platform serving frontier LLMs via easy APIs.
- Deploy optimized NLP models for low-latency, high-throughput serving.
- Create customized model deployments meeting enterprise customer needs.
What they offer
- Weekly lunch stipend of $75/£75 or equivalent
- Full health and dental benefits, including a separate budget for mental health
- RRSP matching, 401K, Pension Scheme
- 100% Parental Leave top-up for up to 6 months, for either parent
- Annual enrichment benefits for arts & culture, fitness/wellness, quality time and workspace
- Education & learning stipend for conferences, courses, and coaching
- 6 weeks of paid vacation (30 working days)
- Budget for traveling to other offices if you are remote, plus an annual company offsite
- $500 home office stipend
- Daily lunch program, snacks, and community events for those in the office
- Co-working benefit for those not near an office
Ideal candidate
Infrastructure engineer with large-scale production experience who is energized by high-performance ML systems, collaboration, and tackling evolving complex challenges with grit.
Requirements
- 5+ years of engineering experience running production infrastructure at a large scale
- Experience designing large, highly available distributed systems with Kubernetes, and GPU workloads on those clusters
- Experience with Kubernetes dev and production coding and support
- Experience with GCP, Azure, AWS, OCI, multi-cloud on-prem / hybrid serving
- Experience in designing, deploying, supporting, and troubleshooting in complex Linux-based computing environments
- Experience in compute/storage/network resource and cost management
- Excellent collaboration and troubleshooting skills to build mission-critical systems, and ensure smooth operations and efficient teamwork
- The grit and adaptability to solve complex technical challenges that evolve day to day
- Familiarity with computational characteristics of accelerators (GPUs, TPUs, and/or custom accelerators), especially how they influence latency and throughput of inference
- Strong understanding or working experience with distributed systems
- Experience in Golang, C++ or other languages designed for high-performance scalable servers
- remote policy
- remote-friendly
Lab profile
About Cohere
Security-first enterprise AI company building frontier foundation models for business applications.
What they build
- Command foundation models
- Embed models
- Rerank models
Known for
- Security-first enterprise AI
- Frontier model training and deployment
- Business-focused end-to-end products
Key facts
- Founded in 2019
- Headquartered in Toronto, Canada